Crowning glory for PML

13 June 2014

Last night in London, PML won the Environment and Conservation category at the 15th Annual Charity Awards for its Europe-Africa Marine Earth Observation Network (EAMNet) project.

The event was held in the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane and was attended by over 700 guests. The Charity Awards is Civil Society Media’s annual awards programme held to identify, recognise and reward those organizations doing exceptional work in all areas of charitable activity.
PML led the EAMNet project, a collaboration linking Earth observation information providers, user networks and centres of excellence in Europe and Africa in the area of coastal and marine observations. It aims to provide African nations with the resources they need to manage their aquatic environments more effectively and ensure long-term sustainable development in the region, to help in the alleviation of poverty.

PML’s Chief Executive, Professor Stephen de Mora, who collected the award, commented: “We are overjoyed to have won the Environment and Conservation category at the Charity Awards. To have been shortlisted from so many other worthwhile charities was an honour but to win! We are absolutely over the moon.

We are recognised internationally for our research to help society understand and manage the resources of our global ocean and very proud that this work is considered to have “global strategic impact”.

EAMNet is just one of the many projects where we are sharing our knowledge and expertise with others around the world to help maintain healthy and sustainable seas for the benefit of all.

Our world-leading science, along with that of other leading marine organisations around Plymouth, truly demonstrates why it’s Britain’s Ocean City.”

The EAMNET project received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme under Space Call SPA.2009.3.2.01 International Cooperation

PML’s research funding success continues to increase, according to the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) annual Research Organisation Success Rates table of 2013/14, rising from 39% in 2012/13 to 52%.